eggs considered harmful

[John J. Lee]

Harry George <harry.g.george at boeing.com> writes:

> Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> This is a possibility.  The tarballs can be seen in a directory
> listing.  They are in different subdirs (for different "bundles" of
> functionality), so I'll need -f to look several places.

One possibility here is to have a script maintain symlinks (or have it
otherwise appropriately configure a web server).

[...]
> I agree pure eggs are rare.  The fact that they increased this past
> quarter was what concerned me.  ZODB even looks like a normal tarball,
> builds ok, but uses a easy-install-style lookup during install.

All setuptools-based packages work this way: they have a setup.py that
(roughly) imports the setup function from setuptools rather than
distutils.


John